Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"It excels in duplicating data between two distinct types of storage systems."

"Product is self-payable, and due to the data protection provided to the IT environment, we can reach very secure operational levels."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"The image backup feature is great. For example, if you set the journal to take a backup every ten minutes, it will create a snapshot or pointer every ten minutes for as long as you need."

"When it works, it is the best product that is available."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well, with continuous data replication and almost no data loss."

"The technical support for Dell RecoverPoint is excellent."

"I would rate its stability almost a nine out of ten."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."

"Dell RecoverPoint is affordable for enterprises but not for mid-size organizations due to the required network investment for bandwidth across sites."

"The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market."

"The initial setup is complex."

"Scalability is one of the few drawbacks of this thing. They're still using Flash Player to manage, and now it is extremely slow."

"The interfaces could be improved for better ease of use. There's also room for improvement in direct compatibility with other solutions."

"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."

"Dell RecoverPoint can be improved by virtualizing it, which would use less storage and enhance performance."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"The price is moderate."

"It is considered quite costly."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"The product is fairly priced."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."